Visiting Hamburg - day 2 (Tuesday)
Second day in Hamburg. Only two "official" meetings scheduled. I joined the developers community
meeting.
After we finished, I asked Eike if we can discuss the structure of l10n component and its
subcomponents in the IssueZilla. We came to the conclusion to change it a bit. I'll summarize it when
I'm back at home.
Meeting with Release Engineering team. Interesting guys :-) Pleasure to meet them. Heiner was kind
enough to play Sun-Doom with me when we visited the server room. I must admit that I do not have so
"hot" machines (whatever the word "hot" could mean here ;-). I have a lot to do to make my builds
optimized ;-) Kurt has shown me the tool Hamburg RE is using for managing
builds. Interesting. Release Engineering teams of various companies should have their meetings as
well to coordinate their work. I can imagine that OpenOffice.org folks at Intel have to solve similar
problems (in slightly smaller volume though) as Hamburg RE. And of course I can also learn a lot
from it... Interesting discussions about cleaning the unused code from OpenOffice.org.
Brain session with Ivo about l10n issues mainly affecting translators (help images in the core, but
text in the langpacks etc.). The localizable license issue is still looking for the
volunteer. I think I'll file an enhancement to remove the usage of the external file for the license
reference (and I used the word "reference" on purpose, because the file LICENSE in OpenOffice.org
doesn't contain the actual license text anymore, but only a reference to it) and use UI strings
instead of the current license file with three lines of text... Discussed this issue also with
Vladimir, The License Guy at Sun ;-))
Back to the hotel, watching TV and writing two blog entries and some more *real* work ;-)